Quotes About Honesty

think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

Nadie es capaz de hablar honestamente de sus sufrimientos hasta que no ha dejado de sentirlos.

and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception

And yet if it be sometimes necessary to conceal facts with words, then it should be done in such manner that it shall not appear; or should it be observed, then a defense should be promptly ready. Niccolò Machiavelli, "Confidential Instructions" to Raffaello Girolami (trans. C. Detmold) But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. Matthew 5:37 1.

he'll come back. We all come back, Kate. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way. Frank is right-- every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your life groping for it, but once it's out it never lights again. I don't think he went very far. He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out.

PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been..

Every man does have a star. the star of one's honesty. and you spend your life groping for it, but once its out it never lights again.

To admit what you see endangers principles.

I could tell you things about Louis that wouldn't make you wave at him no more

JIM, gets up: Chris would never know how to live with a thing like that. It takes a certain talent . . . for lying. You have it, and I do. But not him.

Authenticity soothes the soul.

Authenticity reduces stress and produces faith in oneself and in the potential to grow and learn.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

Die Freunde nennen sich aufrichtig; die Feinde sind es: daher man ihren Tadel zur Selbsterkenntnis benutzen sollte, als eine bittre Arznei